A 2015 documentary on local supporters of Japan’s traditions of whaling and dolphin-hunting won an international film festival award Saturday in London, the director said Monday.
Keiko Yagi, 50, director of “Behind the Cove,” won the award for best director of a feature documentary at the London International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema, which ended Saturday.
Her film is a rebuttal to the 2010 Oscar-winning U.S. film “The Cove,” which thrust the small whaling town of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, into the international spotlight with bloody scenes of its annual dolphin hunt.
To film the documentary, Yagi stayed in the town in 2014.
The aim of the weeklong annual festival is to discover new talent.
Yagi said it was significant that her film, which aims to end “misconceptions” about the long-standing traditions, won an award in a city where antiwhaling protests are often held.
>not talk about the film >insult director's appearance typical american
Alexander Harris
Maybe that hag is your mother, that's why you're so triggered.
Andrew Adams
my opinion is that the only reason whaling is bad is because eventually there won't be any whales left to whale. I don't give a shit about the whales themselves, I'm saying if there's no moderation on the practice of whaling, then the practice won't be able to continue. I'm concerned for whaling rather than whales, and that's a reason one might want to stop whaling, ironically.
Blake Lee
International Court of Justice banned Japs from whaling. You guys just need to stop already. Australians know full well how whales are being killed on an industrial scale in the antarctic.
Wyatt Reed
Why? It isn't a good film.
I think this is fake news.
Grayson Lee
Same with China's sharking. These two countries are more related than you think
Aiden Allen
It seems like it's just a bitter Japanese lady who doesn't like foreigners telling her country what is right.
Well too bad. Stop being so racist, stop killing the whales.
Gabriel Lopez
Why is that woman supporting the removal of her specie ?
Gavin Watson
or at least don't violate international laws and only whale in your own ocean
James Cruz
>If you criticize Japan, you must be pro-China Nip diaspora, please
Kayden Brown
>killing animals that take forever to reproduce at an industrial scale >ohshitnigger.jpg Moral dilemma aside, that's just not sustainable... Eat a pig for once. Yeah, they're intelligent as well, as far as animals go, but at leadt we can breed them.
Jace Johnson
It's strange how a country that claims to respect nature so much is so stupid when it comes to hunting whales.
Christopher Ward
She looks like a rasist stereotype wax cabinet figure of a japanese woman.
Chase Smith
>respecting nature They just like watching rain drops and having a pretty garden with little tree
Jaxon Foster
I saw this documentary at my film club and it was really bad.
Austin Morales
If you want to be truly sustainable then go vegan. Industrial livestock farming is disastrous to the planet.
Cooper Gray
>that whale necklace She must be so fucking morbid
Matthew Gutierrez
How about we just stop eating endangered species for starters.
Alexander Morris
japn is a shitholw
Cooper Taylor
japs and anglos are evil
Caleb Russell
Japs are an undangered species, their population is declining
Ryan Perry
You are correct but nobody’s gonna stop eating meat. It just tastes too good.
Ryan Phillips
kill yourself
Brandon Martinez
>A 2015 documentary on local supporters of Japan’s traditions of whaling and dolphin-hunting won an international film festival award Saturday in London, the director said Monday
Japan-kun, the wooden spoon is not an award you want to win, it is a joke award.
Samuel Nelson
this site is full of butthurt americans. it has a lot of positive reviews meanwhile far less negative reviews though.
Andrew Parker
We think human being is also consisting of nature. We just don't like to be hypocrite westerners who claim killing cow is ok but dolphin is not.
John James
Two nukes wasn't enough.
Parker Cooper
zainichi
Ethan Harris
Prove it.
It is okay to kill cow, because cow will not go extinct, and the UN has not told us to stop killing cow. There is no hypocrisy.
Austin Brooks
The 2018 British Film Institute festival has not even begun yet. Which festival is she talking about? Probably, no one has heard of it.
William Flores
I see op, you are just mentally retarded.
Carson Lee
Australians should not slaughter kangaroos, crocodiles, emu and eat.
Gavin Cruz
Killing and breeding, Cow is not an endangered species. How are you gonna breed dolphins and whales?
Grayson Edwards
Australians farm kangaroos, crocodiles, emus. They will not go extinct, it is fine to eat them.
Ethan Harris
Even among whales minke whales do not become extinct because there are many numbers.
William Brown
start breeding them in senpaitachi and it will be fine. But you cant do that stupid Nip, too stupid for farms.
Charles Flores
Whaling is bad because UN said so? I think it's ok to kill Brits too because they are not endangered yet.
Colton Gonzalez
fucking hell. the troll looks like she's munched on one too many whales herself
Parker Price
Is it a joke? Australians hunt wild kangaroos as hobbies and eat.
Britons also eat wild rabbits.
Joseph Miller
lmao are you fucking retarded
Camden Cook
killing brits is fine you are doing a favour to the world.
Sebastian King
Not undangered spicies nip try again
William Stewart
ignorance. Kangaroo decreased for a while by a hunting quite a few.
By the way, the Brazilians are eating endangered monkeys and Anteater.
Lucas Green
yeah I thought so, you're a fucking dumbcunt kek btw don't reply to my posts mongoloid
Carter Long
The monkey meme again. Monkey eating is illegal here and so is dog eating. Kangaroos breed like rabbits if you eat one, two are born.
Leo Foster
Hello. The usual South Korean who used proxy. Are you pretending to be an Australian now?
Benjamin Brooks
Japanese hunt all whales, not just minke.
Japanese say they hunt for science, but they eat the whales they catch. Innocent people do not lie.
Jaxson Rodriguez
>Kangaroo decreased for a while by a hunting quite a few.
From what? 20 billion to 19.9999 billion? They're a pest more than anything you dumb cunt.
Isaiah Ortiz
>Whaling is bad because UN said so?
Yes.
> I think it's ok to kill Brits too because they are not endangered yet.
Whales and dolphins are smart and rare. Killing them is barbarous.
Alexander Johnson
The Japanese are a very selfish people.
They are killing many, many whales because they are greedy, and want to eat them.
Soon there will be no more whales, and no one will be able to enjoy them. How selfish of Japanese people.
Jaxon Morgan
>its the japs accusing everyone of being goreans episode again lmao I thought you were a dumbshit after you posted that ignorant crap about culling but now I realize you're just a fucktard, enjoy living life with 0 sense of self awareness fuccboi
Christopher Hill
she's 50, who cares
Liam Phillips
>Kangaroos are a pest, they will never go extinct. the same could be said of kangaroos, its why we cull them every year
>inb4 more ignorant dumbshit asian fuckwit posts
Leo Martin
>the same could be said of kangaroos, its why we cull them every year
I guessed, but I didn't want to assume.
Nothing on cane toads though, eh?
Levi Cox
Japan hunts only minke whales.
Northern Europe is hunting blue whale. Does the white race say nothing to white race? It is racial discrimination.
British should stop killing wild rabbits and gray squirrels.
Colton Cruz
>Expecting japs, who cannibalize PoWs not out of hunger but just because it's available meat, to give a shit about anything edible and make any logical arguments regarding the reason certain animals are OK to eat and others aren't.
Can we just fucking remove Asia from this planet already?
Aiden Harris
can you go visit a therapist and stop spamming on Sup Forums? many of japanese IPs have already got permabanned because of you. is it ok japan get rangebanned on Sup Forums because of you?
Jaxson King
Two nukes wasn't enough to save the dolphins and the whales?
Grayson Bell
I bet if nips got rangebanned this faggot would still torment us with a chink or gook IP.
Jackson Garcia
>cane toads don't really have a good solution for that m8, if only we could get the japanese to hunt toads instead of whales
Gavin Smith
Why japan never stop bringing korea to topic that literally has nothing to do with us?
Brandon Cook
Minke whales are not going extinct.
If it is strange to eat a whale, it is strange to eat rabbits, gray squirrels, snails and maggot cheese.
The number of kangaroos is decreasing by the hunting of play. Giantmoa and Thylacine have become extinct
Logan Cook
They can't stop thinking about it, too much hate.
Michael Flores
Based. Let's go eat some whales to celebrate.
Jose Johnson
Why are Japanese people so dishonest?
You kill all whales and dolphins, not just minke.
Only Faroe Islands hunt whales, and we want them to stop as well.
The documentary is awful, it has not won any awards.
There is no racial discrimination, Japanese people are being selfish and hate foreigners telling them to do the right thing. Japanese people are very racist.
Rabbits and grey squirrels are pests, they will not go extinct.
Lincoln Brooks
>Trying to compare endangered rare species with pests that procreate everywhere like insects.
Sebastian Kelly
Northern Europeans are killing whales and dolphins.
Asher Thomas
>dumb crap >random gibberish >FUCK YOU WHAREU FUCK YOU DORUPHIN
Evan Sanders
I'm really sorry korea bro. He is a recognized mental retard making the same spamming about korea on Sup Forums for several years. I hope mods rangeban his ISP.
Actually please don't and instead, fucking google "Kangaroo population" right now so you can instantly prove yourself fucking wrong, then google "How to kill yourself at home" and follow the instructions.
John Wood
Giant Moa went extinct 500 years ago. Thylacine went extinct 100 years ago. Are Japanese people only as smart as foreigners from 100 years ago?
Japanese hunt all whales, not just minke.
Hunting endangered whales is not "strange" it is wrong, and illegal.
Kangaroos are not on the verge of extinction.
Benjamin Thomas
Do Britons who dominated half of the world are not selfish?
Why not condemn the whaling of northern Europe, Russia, Alaska and Iceland?
Grayson Johnson
Fuck off you retarded nipshit Equating whale hunting to kangaroo hunting is such a joke
Hunter Barnes
>There are about 50 million kangaroos now, about double the human population, with 22 million in Queensland and a record 17 million in New South Wales, according to the Office of Environment and Heritage in that state. WHY YOU KIRR KANGAROO
Isaac Evans
>Do Britons who dominated half of the world are not selfish?
Yes, they are. That's why I don't like the British.
But the Japanese are selfish also.
>Why not condemn the whaling of northern Europe, Russia, Alaska and Iceland?
Roo-Emu alliance. Species war now, gas the h*manoids.
Jayden Baker
So please also do not post racial discrimination against Japanese.
Anthony Morris
A selfish person plays his music too loud, and does not turn it down when all his neighbours ask him to be quieter.
Many, many of Japan's neighbours have asked him to stop hunting whales and dolphins, but he still does it. Japan is a selfish person.
Daniel Collins
Kangaroo kamikaze attacks on our trucks and cars have been pretty ineffective so far.
Evan Jackson
Why people can't stop eating rare species to start eating pests. Japs should start eating Kangaroos.
Luis Lopez
The British exterminated many people in the world, right? Native American, Aboriginal in Australia, African tribe, Asian tribe, Arab tribe, British destroyed them.
Mason Davis
roo doesn't taste all that great, the people who I know eat it regularly only do it for the health benefits and for gains
Kayden Lewis
Yes. That's why I dislike British people.
You do realise I am not British, yes?
Hudson Williams
This is true but why should whale be extinct because of that?
Andrew Gray
Japanese people exterminated many many Chinese people as well. Japanese people are just as bad.
Landon Lopez
>former imperial power tries to smack talk about another former imperial power
Levi Cook
Every human is bad, whales are the only innocent here
Hunter Walker
Lmao if given the chance Japan would have exterminated all other Asians and replaced them with Japanese. You almost succeeded in Korea.
The only people I know who eat roo regularly is the Aboriginal community.
t. lives in QLD
Joseph Ward
The UK has extincted people all over the world. The English are selfish people.
Whaling is necessary for any island nation. Whales eat MANY MILLIONS of tons of fish, and left to breed freely will drive many species of fish extinct.
The species which we get shit on for whaling, which is going extinct ELSEWHERE but not here GAINS 50.000 new whales EVERY YEAR, of only that single species, ONLY IN ICELANDIC WATERS.
Our maximum quota of how many of these whales can be hunted each year?
200.
>OH NO!!! IT'S A SAVAGE BRUTAL MASSACRE YOU WILL DRIVE THESE PRECIOUS GENTLE GIANTS EXTINCT!!!! IT'S LIKE ANOTHER HOLOCAUST
Michael Cooper
>Chinese >Mongol invasions
Heh.
Matthew Richardson
It was okay for Chinese to kill Japanese, was self defense.
Japanese were violent criminals, stealing, raping, murdering.
Liam Martinez
Fuck off, you dump japs. Don't free use Vietnam for your own convenience.
